‘Inside Out 2’ Trailer Teases the Turbulence of Adolescence With New Emotion, Anxiety
Pixar is racing toward puberty and teen years with the new sequel to the critically acclaimed animated film Inside Out. The first trailer for Inside Out 2 debuted on Thursday, reuniting fans with the various emotions living inside a young girl’s head, including Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Disgust (Liza Lapira, taking over for Mindy Kaling), Fear (Tony Hale, replacing Bill Hader) and Anger (Lewis Black). But this time around, a new emotion has entered the chat: Anxiety.
Inside Out 2 picks up roughly nine years after the original film’s debut, which followed the young Riley as she struggles to adjust to a new home and group of friends after moving from Minnesota to San Francisco.
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“Our little girl is growing up so fast,” Joy says in the trailer. “And things couldn’t be better.”
That is until a mysterious alarm begins going off inside Riley’s mind. “What is that?” Sadness asks. Ozzy Osbourne’s 1980 song “Crazy Train” plays as a wrecking crew arrives for what they describe as “demo day” and begins destroying Riley’s mind.
After the wreckage clears, the group finds another emotion, Anxiety (voiced by Maya Hawke), has joined their group — and she might not be alone.
“Oh my gosh, I’m Anxiety, where can I put my stuff?” Anxiety asks. “We wanted to make such a good first impression.”
“What do you mean, ‘We’?” Disgust asks, in, well, disgust.
The sequel was first announced in 2022 at Disney’s D23 Expo. Inside Out 2 hits theaters on June 14, 2024, almost nine years after the first film.
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